sideburden
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sideburden (plural sideburdens)
- (geology) The rock and subsoil that lies next to a mineral deposit such as a coal seam.
- 2007, Erik Eberhardt, Doug Stead, Tom Morrison, Rock Mechanics: Meeting Society's Challenges and Demands, →ISBN:
- Settari (2002) and Osorio et al. (1999) also suggest that the analysis domain should include overburdens, sideburdens and underburdens for better accommodation of the coupling effects of stress changes and flow.
- 2013, David H. Johnston, Practical Applications of Time-lapse Seismic Data, →ISBN, page 218:
- Such sideburden speedups have not been seen to date in carbonate and deepwater settings.
- 2016, Alexandre Lavrov, Lost Circulation: Mechanisms and Solutions, →ISBN, page 27:
- Therefore, the effective vertical stress in the sideburden will increase, too.